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    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
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    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry

    By Manly P. Hall

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    A high-ranking Mason offers a fascinating glimpse into the Western world's most secretive society. Manly P. Hall, a scholar of occult and esoteric ideas, traces the path followed by initiates to the ancient craft. Hall also recounts the ethical training required of a Freemason, and he profiles the character traits a Mason must "build" within himself. More than a mere social organization a few centuries old, Freemasonry can be regarded as a perpetuation of the philosophical mysteries and initiations of the ancients. This book reveals the unique and distinctive elements that have inspired generations of Masons. Thoughtful members of the craft, as well as outsiders, will appreciate its exploration of Masonic idealism and the eternal quest, from humble candidate to entered apprentice and master Mason.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReading Essentials
    Release dateJun 30, 2019
    ISBN9788834148471
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    Manly P. Hall

    Manly P. Hall (1901-1990) founded the Philosophical Research Society, an organization dedicated to the dissemination of practical knowledge in a variety of philosophical fields. He is best known for his 1928 classic, The Secret Teachings of All Ages.

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      The Lost Keys of Freemasonry - Manly P. Hall

      The Lost Keys of Freemasonry 

      by Manly P. Hall

      First published in 1923

      This edition published by Reading Essentials

      Victoria, BC Canada with branch offices in the Czech Republic and Germany

      For.ullstein@gmail.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except in the case of excerpts by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

      THE LOST KEYS OF FREEMASONRY 

      by MANLY P. HALL

      PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD

      The steady demand and increasing popularity of this volume, of

      which eighteen thousand copies have been printed since it first

      appeared a few years ago, have brought the present revised and

      rearranged edition into being. The text can be read with profit by

      both new and old Mason, for within its pages lies an interpretation

      of Masonic symbolism which supplements the monitorial instruction

      usually given in the lodges.

      The leading Masonic scholars of all times have agreed that the

      symbols of the Fraternity are susceptible of the most profound

      interpretation and thus reveal to the truly initiated certain

      secrets concerning the spiritual realities of life. Freemasonry is

      therefore more than a mere social organization a few centuries old,

      and can be regarded as a perpetuation of the philosophical

      mysteries and initiations of the ancients. This is in keeping with

      the inner tradition of the Craft, a heritage from pre-Revival days.

      The present volume will appeal to the thoughtful Mason as an

      inspiring work, for it satisfies the yearning for further light and

      leads the initiate to that Sanctum Sanctorum where the mysteries

      are revealed. The book is a contribution to Masonic idealism,

      revealing the profounder aspects of our ancient and gentle

      Fraternity - those unique and distinctive features which have

      proved a constant inspiration through the centuries.

      FOREWORD

      By REYNOLD E. BLIGHT, 33 degree, K. T.

      Reality forever eludes us. Infinity mocks our puny efforts to

      imprison it in definition and dogma. Our most splendid

      realizations are only adumbrations of the Light. In his endeavors,

      man is but a mollusk seeking to encompass the ocean.

      Yet man may not cease his struggle to find God. There is a

      yearning in his soul that will not let him rest, an urge that

      compels him to attempt the impossible, to attain the unattainable.

      He lifts feeble hands to grasp the stars and despite a million

      years of failure and millenniums of disappointment, the soul of man

      springs heavenward with even greater avidity than when the race was

      young.

      He pursues, even though the flying ideal eternally slips from his

      embrace. Even though he never clasps the goddess of his dreams, he

      refuses to believe that she is a phantom. To him she is the only

      reality. He reaches upward and will not be content until the sword

      of Orion is in his hands, and glorious Arcturus glearns from his

      breast.

      Man is Parsifal searching for the Sacred Cup; Sir Launfal

      adventuring for the Holy Grail. Life is a divine adventure, a

      splendid quest

      Language falls. Words are mere cyphers, and who can read the

      riddle? These words we use, what are they but vain shadows of form

      and sense? We strive to clothe our highest thought with verbal

      trappings that our brother may see and understand; and when we

      would describe a saint he sees a demon; and when we would present a

      wise man he beholds a fool. Fie upon you, he cries; "thou, too,

      art a fool."

      So wisdom drapes her truth with symbolism, and covers her insight

      with allegory. Creeds, rituals, poems are parables and symbols.

      The ignorant take them literally and build for themselves prison

      houses of words and with bitter speech and bitterer taunt denounce

      those who will not join them in the dungeon. Before the rapt

      vision of the seer, dogma and ceremony, legend and trope dissolve

      and fade, and he sees behind the fact the truth, behind the symbol

      the Reality.

      Through the shadow shines ever the Perfect Light.

      What is a Mason? He is a man who in his heart has been duly and

      truly prepared, has been found worthy and well qualified, has been

      admitted to the fraternity of builders, been invested with certain

      passwords and signs by which he may be enabled to work and receive

      wages as a Master Mason, and travel in foreign lands in search of

      that which was lost - The Word.

      Down through the misty vistas of the ages rings a clarion

      declaration and although the very heavens echo to the

      reverberations, but few hear and fewer understand: "In the

      beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was

      God."

      Here then is the eternal paradox. The Word is lost yet it is ever

      with us. The light that illumines the distant horizon shines in

      our hearts. Thou wouldst not seek me hadst thou not found me. We

      travel afar only to find that which we hunger for at home.

      And as Victor Hugo says: "The thirst for the Infinite proves

      infinity."

      That which we seek lives in our souls.

      This, the unspeakable truth, the unutterable perfection, the author

      has set before us in these pages. Not a Mason himself, he has read

      the deeper meaning of the ritual. Not having assumed the formal

      obligations, he calls upon all mankind to enter into the holy of

      holies. Not initiated into the physical craft, he declares the

      secret doctrine that all may hear.

      With vivid allegory and profound philosophical disquisition he

      expounds the sublime teachings of Freemasonry, older than all

      religions, as universal as human aspiration.

      It is well. Blessed are the eyes that see, and the ears that hear,

      and the heart that understands.

      INTRODUCTION

      Freemasonry, though not a religion, is essentially religious. Most

      of its legends and allegories are of a sacred nature; much of it is

      woven into the structure of Christianity. We have learned to

      consider our own religion as the only inspired one, and this

      probably accounts for much of the misunderstanding in the world

      today concerning the place occupied by Freemasonry in the spiritual

      ethics of our race. A religion is a divinely inspired code of

      morals. A religious person is one inspired to nobler living by

      this code. He is identified by the code which is his source of

      illumination. Thus we may say that a Christian is one who receives

      his spiritual ideals of right and wrong from the message of the

      Christ, while a Buddhist is one who molds his life into the

      archetype of morality given by the great Gautama, or one of the

      other Buddhas. All doctrines which seek to unfold and preserve

      that invisible spark in man named Spirit, are said to be spiritual

      . Those which ignore this invisible element and concent rate

      entirely upon the visible are said to be material. There is in

      religion a wonderful point of balance, where the materialist and

      spiritist

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